Archive for April, 2013

Digiboard Win Tesco Turkey

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Network owner Digiboard has signed a six year contract with the Tesco group in Turkey, the contract covers the 150 Tesco stores and 27 shopping malls. Shown above is a 3 x 3 video wall. Elsewhere in the 15.000 sqm. Tesco hypermarkets are a number of 65″ screens (shown below). Digiboard’s first foray into retail […]

G’day Boys

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bonds, one of Australia’s most-loved heritage brands, is set to revisit one of TBWA\London’s most iconic campaigns to celebrate the arrival of its underwear range onto UK shores. The collaboration between TBWA\London and Bonds pays homage to the original poster, mimicking it as closely as possible – aiming this time around to raise awareness that […]

AUVIX Announces Russian Digital Signage Center of Excellence

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

AUVIX today announced the launch of a new line of business – Digital Signage Solutions, developed to combine the existing products in the company’s portfolio, new suppliers and create a center of Digital Signage expertise at AUVIX. Earlier this year, AUVIX decided to form a new Digital Signage Solutions Division (DSS). The decision to dedicate […]

Fiona FitzGibbon To Head Up Out Of Home @CheilUK

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Fiona FitzGibbon has joined agency Cheil as its first Head of Out of Home, Fiona joins from CBS Outdoor and will report to Matt Pye, MD at Cheil UK. Her remit is to formulate and deliver OOH strategy for all Cheil’s clients across all disciplines, from planning and buying to innovation, integration and creative guidance. […]

SubWay Link Becomes Atmo Digital Media

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

SubWay Link. São Paolo, Brazil, hás changed its name to Atmo Digital Media. After 22 years in the market, the company’s corporate TV, digital out-of-home media and audiovisual solutions for events, have gone through a restructuring process of the brand. “The new brand represents a maturing of the company and synthesizes all of our evolution […]

JCDecaux And Clear Channel Pull Out of Bidding

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

According to the Financial Times both JCDecaux and Clear Channel, have pulled out of the second stage of the formal bidding process for CBS Outdoor’s International division, leaving just private equity investors in the running. Apparently some five private equity groups, including Providence Equity Partners, Platinum Equity and GMT Communications Partners, have proceeded to the […]

#CurmudgeonFriday @Computex_TAIPEI (It Is April)

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Not only is the whole media pre-registration page for COMPUTEX TAIPEI a series of JPGs (meaning of course you cannot copy and paste any of the contact details on said page), it seems that even two weeks into April, Taiwan is perhaps operating on some form of different calendar… It says, we quote “Media pre-registration […]

Oops @DelphiDisplay Marries Corpse Bride

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Delphi Display Systems Signs announced Thursday, we quote “(a) Long Term Exclusive License with Wireless Ronin Technologies” but we cannot help thinking that they (Delphi) don’t choose their partners particularly well. This is only as ‘long term’ as Ronin manages to stay in business and although we have announced Ronin’s death prematurely many times before […]

Korean Police Raid Samsung Reports @OLEDinfo

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Andrew Neale

OLED-Info (probably the leading OLED web site on the internet today, one that has been up since July 2004, and is well worth following if OLED is your thing) reports that the South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Display as part of an investigation into alleged large-sized OLED TV technology theft from LG […]

Scandinavian Outfit CatchTheEye Officially Gone?

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We never quite understood what Scandinavian outfit CatchTheEye did for (real) revenue (apart from Kelly’s handouts of course). and we haven’t written about them or heard from them for many years now. http://www.catchtheeye.no/ no longer works and this last week we have received ‘Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=CatchTheEye.no type=A: […]